RFR (S): JDK-8141394: Remove the instrumentation added by JDK-6898948

Per Liden per.liden at oracle.com
Wed Nov 4 20:33:35 UTC 2015


On 2015-11-04 09:26, Bengt Rutisson wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Could I have a couple of reviews for this small patch to remove some 
> debugging code?
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~brutisso/8141394/webrev.00/
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8141394
>
> To help debug floating point issues for JDK-6902692, JDK-6898948 was 
> used to add some instrumentation.
>
> The instrumentation is guarded by a flag, which is false by default. 
> So, unless the flag is enabled the instrumentation has no effect. We 
> don't run with this flag in our testing and thus the instrumentation 
> code is not being used.
>
> The patch to add the instrumentation is very small. I've attached the 
> patch to JDK-6902692 and my proposed change removes the 
> instrumentation from the code base. That way we have the 
> instrumentation available if we ever start working on JDK-6902692 but 
> we don't have to have the debugging code in our code base.
>

Looks good.

/Per




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